A history of Old English literature /

• Main Author: Fulk, R. D. (Robert Dennis)
• Other Authors: Cain, Christopher M.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Edition: Second edition.
• Series: Blackwell histories of literature.
• Subjects: To 1500; English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism.; Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.; LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Christian hagiography.; English literature > Old English.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts. This revised ed...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Anglo-Saxon England and its literature: a social history
• The chronology and varieties of Old English literature
• Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
• Literature of the Alfredian period
• Homilies
• Saints? legends (Rachel S. Anderson)
• Biblical literature
• Liturgical and devotional texts
• Legal texts
• Scientific and scholastic texts
• Wisdom literature and lyric poetry
• Germanic legend and heroic lay
• Additions, annotations, and marginalia
• Conclusion: Making Old English new: Anglo-Saxonism and the cultural work of Old English literature.